Pierfrancesco Favino: "as an actor it is a privilege to enter the lives of others" - Lifestyle

One of the most popular and award-winning actors (among other candidates for best protagonist for Marco Bellocchio's Il traitor to David di Donatello on May 8), Pierfrancesco Favino recounts his beginnings and aspirations letting himself go to memories, in this period lockdown, for the 'pills' on the professions of cinema in the project curated by Laura Delli Colli and Mario Sesti of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma "Backstage: cinema and its professions".
    Favino, 50, remembers that he owes everything "to the English teacher who loved cinema, took us to see movies and also managed to organize meetings with directors. I still remember the first time I saw Gianni Amelio, it was on the occasion the screening of his I Ragazzi in Via Panisperna, at the Ariston cinema that is no longer there ". Favino, who attended the theater thanks to passionate parents, approached the cinema like this: "after Amelio the Archibugi at Azzurro Scipioni, then Scola. I was fascinated by the actor, a way of saying who I was. So I thought of go to the Academy of Dramatic Arts, where I was admitted. This is how my wonderful life began, "he says.
    Favino had Luca Ronconi and Orazio Costa among the teachers "and that suitcase of questions still accompanies me today, school, preparation are fundamental because this is a profession, even if it is not always recognized as such, and has its specificities, they can't all do it. Those three years of training have been decisive, I still think today that the questions within me have also increased because there is no end to this profession and the aspiration to always improve ".
    What Pierfrancesco Favino loves about his job is "to enter the lives of people I would never meet, touch lives so different from mine, lives that I would not live but that in the moment in which I interpret them I try to understand, even if they are negative characters, looking for between the hidden folds of the human soul as they are, what drives them, trying to save them, to fight for them.
    This is my engine, this is what fascinates me about my profession. Then I am certainly never satisfied, I always have the desire to redo to improve, an ambition that I carry with me as the teaching of my teachers ".
    With time, my career, "what starts to weigh me a little is to stay away from the family, but as in all professions, not everything can come back and I think I am living a huge privilege in doing it". (HANDLE).